Two women issued the same Social Security Number, and the SSA won't help

I read the headline and thought, “Well, at least they’ll be distinguished by having different names and birthdates…” and whoo boy, it’s so much worse than I expected.

Hey, what do you know - all those dystopian fictions about government bureaucracies making it impossible to live one’s life, but also impossibly to know why because of secrecy, actually exist in (late stage) capitalism!

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